Consultant Sign Up

Welcome to The QA South-West Consultant Sign Up Page. We are very keen to develop a great list of consultants who are available for employment throughout the coming year. Please add your details to our database by submitting them on this form and Paul will do his utmost to commission work for you as he works with schools, settings and private providers on Ofsted preparation and quality assurance.
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To work as a consultant for QA South-West you must provide an up-to-date CRB check. We are sorry, but we cannot allow consultants into schools, on our behalf, without this.

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To work for QA South-West in schools you must have personal liability insurance and the required level is a minimum of £1m. This can easily be arranged by specialist insurers and is absolutely necessary for your own protection. Again, we are sorry, but we cannot work with consultants who do not possess at least this level of personal liability cover.

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Please state all the areas where you feel you could give expert consultant support to schools.

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If you wish to be paid directly you will need to supply either your Paypal payment details or your bank Sort Code and Account Number. If you don't want to do this then please inform us here or call QA South-West on 07808 793673. If payment is to be made to a Local Authority, school, or other third party please give details here, or email them to QA South-West separately.

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What We Do

Talk for Teaching leads to improved quality of teaching.

QA South-West has helped many schools to improve the quality of their teaching. It's a notoriously difficult thing to do, but through teachers and TAs reflecting together and pooling their collective intelligence, it can be done. 'Talk for Teaching' involves staff watching other teacher's lessons together with colleagues.

We can be there at the start to demonstrate prompts, advise on positive language and to set school protocols, but the process is easily sustainable. Staff soon begin to take ownership of both the process and their own Professional Development. Teachers improve their own teaching and TAs improve their own work. In Dylan William's words; 'they get 'better' at what they do by seeing the work of others and talking about it, as it happens'. The improvements over a year are clearly measurable and the comments from schools and teachers who have participated in this process are just terrific. The impact of the process can be measured by hard edged outcomes: the quality of teaching, learning and assessment being judged to be good, or outstanding, in the school.

QA South-West works with MATS, academy chains, co-operative trusts, learning communities and over 100 individual schools, colleges and Academies. There have been some notable successes for those schools during their inspections and Principals and headteachers, together with staff in the school, felt an awful lot more comfortable about the process!

This was even recognised by Ofsted in one report from Barnsole Primary , a large 3-form entry primary in Gillingham where the team found this, as the school improved rapidly from RI to Outstanding, with Talk for Teaching at the heart of its improvement process:

"Together with the deputy headteacher, the headteacher has led the ‘Talk for Teaching’ programme that has been an instrumental part of transforming the quality of teaching over time. The high-quality teaching in this school now leads to outstanding outcomes for pupils. The school has used this professional development programme to involve leaders, teachers, teaching assistants, governors and other members of the school staff in observing teaching together. They have detailed conversations about the effectiveness of what is seen and how it can be improved. Staff discuss the quality of teaching regularly and freely share ideas about what works well with colleagues."

It was a tremendous pleasure and privilege to work with all the staff and leaders at Barnsole and QA South-West congratulates Sean McKeown and his excellent team on a remarkably rapid transformation of the quality teaching in the school to outstanding.

Do get in touch; call any time. 07808 793673

Paul and QA South-West help schools across England to improve. Distance help is quite possible, especially with SEF support, though face-to-face help is much better, for staff, SLT and headteacher CPD.